Was a24group.com ambition24hours.co.za hit by ransomware?

a24group.com ambition24hours.co.za was listed by the Alphalocker ransomware operation (United Kingdom), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Alphalocker ransomware group?

Alphalocker is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the a24group.com ambition24hours.co.za breach?

Alphalocker published data attributed to a24group.com ambition24hours.co.za. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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A24Group

listed as a24group.com ambition24hours.co.za · Claimed by Alphalocker · listed 2 years ago

30m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 24, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Alphalocker
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jan 24, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

A24Group is a UK-based medical staffing provider operating for over 27 years, supplying temporary nurses, care assistants, doctors, and allied health professionals to the NHS, Integrated Care Boards, nursing homes, and mental health organisations across England, Scotland, and Wales.

Industry: Healthcare Staffing & Recruitment
Founded: 1997

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed data publication by Alphalocker targeting a healthcare staffing organisation with access to NHS and care facility data. However, the truncated leak post provides no explicit proof count, data inventory detail, or confirmation of regulated/sensitive data exfiltration scope.

Alphalocker claims to have attacked A24Group and published data. The group's post indicates data exfiltration but provides no specific details on data types, volume, or proof materials in the truncated excerpt.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Personnel records
Client information
Staffing assignments
Healthcare provider data

What the group claims

The A24Group has been operating for over 27 years, providing high-quality temporary nurses and care assistants across England, Scotland, and Wales. We're dedicated to serving various client groups, including the NHS, Integrated Care Boards, nursing homes, and mental health and support businesses, as...Read more ⇒

Sources

Victim sitea24group.com
Leak posthttp://mydatae2d63il5oaxxangwnid5loq2qmtsol2ozr6vtb7yfm5ypzo6id.onion/blog_1-6

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Alphalocker

Alphalocker is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in January 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple sectors and countries. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, though their global targeting suggests a sophisticated operation. With 31 documented victims primarily concentrated in the United States, United Kingdom, Thailand, Brazil, and Italy, Alphalocker appears to focus on business services, technology, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors, indicating they likely seek targets with both valuable data and the financial capacity to pay ransoms. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tactics have not been extensively documented by major security researchers or government agencies, suggesting either operational security measures that limit visibility into their methods or their relative novelty in the threat landscape. Given the limited public reporting on notable campaigns or high-profile attacks, Alphalocker appears to operate below the radar of major law enforcement initiatives that typically target more established ransomware operations. The group remains active as of available intelligence, though the lack of comprehensive public analysis from established threat intelligence firms suggests they may be a smaller-scale operation or one that has successfully maintained a lower profile compared to more notorious ransomware families. The group has been linked to 61 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 24, 2024; most recent post May 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Alpha Ransomware.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 24, 2024a24group.com ambition24hours.co.za listed by Alphalockeron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Alphalocker

Alphalocker has been linked to 61 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, a24group.com ambition24hours.co.za is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Alphalocker means a24group.com ambition24hours.co.za appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Alphalocker's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.